Person

• VBE

• Science and Proven Experience (research leader)

• Intervention studies: philosophy of science, decision, and risk (research leader)
• LUCID - Lund University Centre of Excellence for Integration of Social and Natural Dimensions of Sustainability (research leader)
• The ontology and epistemology of mechanisms (research leader)
• Lighting for Sustainable Development - ASG, Pufendorf IAS
• Values, Decision Making and Risk: current perspectives and future research

Johannes is involved in two large research programs. 1) "Vetenskap och beprövad erfarenhet" or "Science and Proven experience", http://www.vbe.lu.se/ (funded by RJ, 2015-2021) focuses on a Swedish concept and phenomenon of considerable legal importance. The program concerns the integration of scientific evidence and proven experience that the Swedish concept implies. 2) The Linnaeus programme "LUCID" http://www.lucid.lu.se/ (funded by Formas, 2008-2018) (similarly) studies the integration of social and natural dimensions of sustainability.

Johannes' research in both programmes concerns central concepts, philosophy of science, evidence-formation, decision-making, and philosophy of risk.

Books (5)

• Persson, J. & Sahlin, N.-E. (2013). Vetenskapsteori för sanningssökare. Fri tanke förlag.
• Persson, J. (2007). Risker i kunskapens mellanrum. Bokförlaget Nya Doxa.
• Persson, J. (1997). Causal Facts. Library of Theoria, 22. Thales. Dissertation.
• Persson, J. (1997). Causal Facts. Library of Theoria 22. Thales.
• Persson, J. (1995). On the mechanisms of causal facts. Department of Philosophy, Lund University. Licentiate thesis.

Editorships (9)

• Persson, J., Hermerén, G. & Sjöstrand, E. (2015). (Eds.) Against boredom : 17 essays on ignorance, values, creativity, metaphysics, decision-making, truth, preference, art, processes, Ramsey, ethics, rationality, validity, human ills, science, and eternal life to Nils-Eric Sahlin on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Fri tanke förlag.
• Persson, J. & Sahlin, N.-E. (2008). (Eds.) Risk & Risici. Bokförlaget Nya Doxa.
• Hanson, B., Egonsson, D., Maurin, A.-S. & Persson, J. (2007). (Eds.) Insikt och handling 22: Temanummer om filosofins nytta. Insikt och handling. Hans Larsson Samfundet.
• Persson, J. & Ylikoski, P. (2007). (Eds.) Rethinking Explanation. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Springer.
• Bird, A. & Persson, J. (2006). (Eds.) Synthese Vol 149 No. 3 Metaphysics in Science. Synthese. Springer.
• Brinck, I., Halldén, S., Maurin, A.-S. & Persson, J. (2005). (Eds.) Risk och det levande mänskliga. Bokförlaget Nya Doxa.
• Boholm, Å., Hansson, S. O., Persson, J. & Peterson, M. (2002). (Eds.) Osäkerhetens horisonter. Kulturella och etiska perspektiv på samhällets riskfrågor. Bokförlaget Nya Doxa.
• Bergström, L. & Persson, J. (2000). (Eds.) Filosofisk tidskrift 2000/4. Filosofisk tidskrift, 4. Thales.
• Persson, J. (1999). (Ed.) Special issue on Lund conference on explanation. Synthese, 120(1). Springer.

Articles (32)

• Olsson, L., Jerneck, A., Thorén, H., Persson, J. & O Byrne, D. (2015). Why resilience is unappealing to social science : Theoretical and empirical investigations of the scientific use of resilience. Science Advances, 1. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
• Persson, J. & Wahlberg, L. (2015). Vår erfarenhet av beprövad erfarenhet: några begreppsprofiler och ett verktyg för precisering. Läkartidningen, 112, 2230-2232. Swedish Medical Association.
• Persson, J., Sahlin, N.-E. & Wallin, A. (2015). Climate change, values, and the cultural cognition thesis. Environmental Science and Policy, 52, 1-5. Elsevier.
• Thorén, H. & Persson, J. (2015). Resilience: Some Philosophical Remarks on Defining Ostensively and Stipulatively. Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, 11, 64-74. Proquest.
• Blennow, K., Persson, J., Wallin, A., Vareman, N. & Persson, E. (2014). Understanding risk in forest ecosystem services: implications for effective risk management, communication and planning. Forestry, 87, 219-228. Oxford University Press.
• Thorén, H. & Persson, J. (2013). The philosophy of interdisciplinarity: sustainability science and problem-feeding. Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 44, 337-355. Springer.
• Blennow, K., Persson, J., Tome, M. & Hanewinkel, M. (2012). Climate Change : Believing and seeing implies adapting. PLoS ONE, 7, 1-7. Public Library of Science.
• Persson, J. (2012). Mechanistic explanation in social contexts: Elster and the problem of local scientific growth. Social Epistemology, 26, 105-114. Routledge.
• Persson, J. (2012). Social laws should be conceived as a special case of mechanisms : A reply to Daniel Little. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 1, 12-14.
• Persson, J. (2012). Social mechanisms and explaining how : A reply to Kimberly Chuang. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 1, 37-41.
• Persson, J. & Wallin, A. (2012). Why internal validity is not prior to external validity: Paper presented at PSA 2012. Brunswik Society Newsletter, 27, 37-38.
• Jerneck, A., Olsson, L., Ness, B., Anderberg, S., Baier, M., Clark, E., Hickler, T., Hornborg, A., Kronsell, A., Lövbrand, E. & Persson, J. (2011). Structuring Sustainability Science. Sustainability Science, 6, 69-82. Springer.
• Persson, J. (2011). Explanation in metaphysics?. Metaphysica, 12, 165-181. Springer.
• Persson, J. (2010). Activity-based accounts of mechanism and the threat of polygenic effects. Erkenntnis, 72, 135-149. Springer.
• Persson, J. (2010). Misconceptions of positivism and five unnecessary science theoretic mistakes they bring in their train. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 47, 651-661. Elsevier.
• Sahlin, N.-E., Wallin, A. & Persson, J. (2010). Decision Science : From Ramsey to Dual Process Theories. Synthese, 172, 129-143. Springer.
• Vareman, N. & Persson, J. (2010). Why separate risk assessors and risk managers? Further external values affecting the risk assessor qua risk assessor. Journal of Risk Research, 13, 687-700. Routledge.
• Blennow, K. & Persson, J. (2009). Climate change: Motivation for taking measure to adapt. Global Environmental Change, 19, 100-104. Global Environmental Change, Elsevier.
• Persson, J. (2009). Semmelweis’s methodology from the modern stand-point: intervention studies and causal ontology. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 40, 204-209. Elsevier.
• Persson, J. & Sahlin, N.-E. (2009). A philosophical account of interventions and causal representation in nursing research : a discussion paper. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 46, 547-556. Elsevier.
• Persson, J. (2007). Filosofins möte med andra vetenskaper och filosofens hårda skal. I & H : Insikt och handling : humanistiskt debattforum, 22, 157-165. Doxa.
• Bird, A. & Persson, J. (2006). Introduction. Synthese, 149, 445-450. Springer.
• Blennow, K., Bergh, J., Lärnås, T., Nilsson, U., Persson, J. & Sallnäs, O. (2006). ”Modul 1 Skogsbruk”. Klimatet och skogen – underlag för nationell forskning. Kungl. Skogs- och Lantbruksakademiens tidskrift, 145, 13-18. Kungliga Skogs och Lantbruks Akademien.
• Persson, J. (2006). Compartment causation. Synthese, 149, 535-550. Springer.
• Persson, J. (2005). Tropes as Mechanisms. Foundations of Science, 10, 371-393. Kluwer.
• Persson, J. (2003). Objektiva risker?. Filosofisk tidskrift, 2003. Thales.
• Persson, J. (2002). Cause, effect, and fake causation. Synthese, 131, 129-143. Springer.
• Maurin, A.-S. & Persson, J. (2001). Realistic metaphysics: An interview with D. H. Mellor. Theoria, 67, 96-113. Thales.
• Persson, J. (2001). The laws' properties (2001-11-26). Preprint without journal information. Manne Siegbahn Institute.
• Persson, J. (2000). Om komplexa egenskaper. Filosofisk tidskrift, 33-42. Thales.
• Persson, J. (1999). The determinables of explanatory mechanisms. Synthese, 120, 77-87. Springer.
• Persson, J. (1998). Den engelska och den franska hjärnan - Duhem om två kunskapsstrategier. Filosofisk tidskrift. Thales.

Book chapters (25)

• Persson, J. & Wallin, A. (2015). The (misconceived) distinction between internal and external validity. In Persson, J., Hermerén, G. & Sjöstrand, E. (Eds.) Against boredom: 17 essays on ignorance, values, creativity, metaphysics, decision-making, truth, preference, art, processes, Ramsey, ethics, rationality, validity, human ills, science, and eternal life to Nils-Eric Sahlin on the occasion of his 60th birthday (pp. 187-195). Fri tanke förlag.
• Brinck, I., Persson, J. & Sahlin, N.-E. (2014). Why metaphysicians do not explain. In Reboul, A. (Ed.) Mind, Values and Metaphysics (pp. 5-19). Springer.
• Hermerén, G., Brinck, I., Persson, J. & Sahlin, N.-E. (2014). Value uncertainty and value instability in decision-making. In Dutant, J., Fassio, D. & Meylan, A. (Eds.) Liber Amicorum Pascal Engel (pp. 100-110). University of Geneva.
• Persson, J. (2014). Att leda och administrera. In Eldén, S. & Jonsson, A. (Eds.) Efter festen: Om konsten att utvecklas från doktor till docent. Studentlitteratur AB.
• Brinck, I., Hermerén, G., Persson, J. & Sahlin, N.-E. (2011). Why metaphysicians do not explain. In Reboul, A. (Ed.) Philosophical papers dedicated to Kevin Mulligan. Université de Genève, Faculté des Lettres.
• Persson, J. (2011). Three conceptions of explaining how possibly - and one reductive account. In de Regt, H., Hartmann, S. & Okasha, S. (Eds.) The European Philosophy of Science Association Proceedings, EPSA Philosophy of Science: Amsterdam 2009 (pp. 275-286), 1. Springer.
• Sahlin, N.-E., Persson, J. & Vareman, N. (2011). Unruhe und Ungewissheit – Stem Cells and Risks. In Hug, K. & Hermerén, G. (Eds.) Translational Stem Cell Research: Issues Beyond the Debate on the Moral Status of the Human Embryo (pp. 421-429). Humana Press.
• Persson, J. (2010). Mechanisms: Are activities up to the job?. In M, S., M, D. & M, R. (Eds.) EPSA Epistemology and Methodology of Science: Launch of the European Philosophy of Science Association (pp. 201-209). Springer.
• Persson, J. (2008). Risk, fara och riskobjekt. In Persson, J. & Sahlin, N.-E. (Eds.) Risk & Risici (pp. 221-230). Bokförlaget Nya Doxa.
• Persson, J. (2007). IBE AND EBI: ON EXPLANATION BEFORE INFERENCE. In Persson, J. & Ylikoski, P. (Eds.) Rethinking Explanation. Springer.
• Persson, J. (2007). The Best Swimmers Drown – Mechanisms and Epistemic Risks: A constructive critique of Elster. In Rønnow-Rasmussen, T., Petersson, B., Josefsson, J. & Egonsson, D. (Eds.) Hommage à Wlodek; 60 Philosophical papers dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz. Department of Philosophy, Lund University.
• Wahlberg, L. & Persson, J. (2007). Riskobjekten, robustheten och experterna. In Persson, J. (Ed.) Risker i kunskapens mellanrum: en studie i tre delar (positioner, färdriktning, kartans vita fält). Bokförlaget Nya Doxa.
• Persson, J. (2006). Levi on the Reality of Dispositions. In Olsson, E. J. (Ed.) Knowledge and Inquiry. Essays on the Pragmatism of Isaac Levi (pp. 313-326). Cambridge University Press.
• Persson, J. (2005). The Laws' Properties. In Faye, J., Scheffler, U. & Urchs, M. (Eds.) Nature's principles (pp. 239-254). Springer.
• Persson, J. (2005). The Laws' Properties. In Faye, J., Scheffler, U. & Urchs, M. (Eds.) Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, Nature's principles (pp. 239-254), 4. Springer.
• Vareman, N. & Persson, J. (2005). Kan riskbedömare och riskhanterare leva åtskilda?. In Brinck, I., Halldén, S., Maurin, A.-S. & Persson, J. (Eds.) Risk och det levande mänskliga (pp. 181-210). Bokförlaget Nya Doxa.
• Wahlberg, L. & Persson, J. (2005). Nya perspektiv på robusthet. In Brinck, I., Halldén, S., Maurin, A.-S. & Persson, J. (Eds.) Risk och det levande mänskliga (pp. 211-233). Bokförlaget Nya Doxa.
• Persson, J. (2004). Riskkommunikation och tillit. In Wickenberg, P., Nilsson, A. & Steneroth Sillén, M. (Eds.) Miljö och hållbar utveckling: samhällsvetenskapliga perspektiv från en lundahorisont (pp. 65-84). Studentlitteratur AB.
• Persson, J. (2002). De förbisedda objektsaspekterna av risk. In Boholm, Å., Hansson, S. O., Persson, J. & Peterson, M. (Eds.) Osäkerhetens horisonter (pp. 15-28). Bokförlaget Nya Doxa.
• Persson, J. (2002). Myran, spindeln och den personligt erövrade kunskapen. In Franck, O. (Ed.) Unga filosofer : antologi för gymnasiet. Natur och kultur.
• Persson, J. (2001). What is explanatory asymmetry?. In Kiikeri, M. & Ylikoski, P. (Eds.) Explanatory Connections: Electronic essays dedicated to Matti Sintonen (pp. 1-22).
• Persson, J. (2000). Examining the facts. In Faye, J., Scheffler, U. & Urchs, M. (Eds.) Things, facts and events (pp. 87-107), 76. Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities. Rodopi.
• Persson, J. (2000). Tiden, skenet och verkligheten. Har du tid? NFRs årsbok, 101-112. NFR.
• Persson, J. & Sahlin, N.-E. (1999). A fundamental problem of causation (with no solution). In Nils-Eric, S., Sören, H., Hansson, B. & Rabinowicz, W. (Eds.) Spinning Ideas: Electronic Essays Dedicated to Peter Gärdenfors on His Fiftieth Birthday. Department of Philosophy, Lund University.
• Sahlin, N.-E. & Persson, J. (1994). Epistemic risk: The significance of knowing what one does not know. In Brehmer, B. & Sahlin, N.-E. (Eds.) Future risks and risk management (pp. 37-62), Technology, risk, and society vol 9. Kluwer.

Prefaces (1)

• Persson, J. & Ylikoski, P. (2007). Preface. Rethinking Explanation. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 252. Springer.

Conference contributions (4)

• Persson, J. & Wallin, A. (2012). Why internal validity is not prior to external validity. Philosophy of Science Assoc. 23rd Biennial Mtg (San Diego, CA) > PSA 2012 Contributed Papers. Phil Sci Archives.
• Thorén, H. & Persson, J. (2011). Philosophy of Interdisciplinarity: Problem‐Feeding, Conceptual Drift, and Methodological Migration. PhilSci Archive.
• Persson, J. (2009). Three conceptions of explaining how possibly—and one reductive account. PhilSci Archive. PhilSci Archive.
• Persson, J. (2007). Mechanism-as-activity and the threat of polygenic effects. EPSA07: 1st Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (Madrid, 15-17 November, 2007).. Phil Sci Archive.

Working papers (2)

• Persson, J. (2007). The Best Swimmers Drown – Mechanisms and Epistemic Risks: A constructive critique of Elster. Hommage à Wlodek. Philosophical papers dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz.
• Persson, J. (2001). Unscrambling nomological machines (2001-06-19).

Reviews (2)

• Persson, J. (2003). Review of Max Kistler’s ”Causalité et lois de la nature”. Mind, 112, 741-746. Oxford University Press.
• Persson, J. (1994). Review of David Owens: Causes and Coincidences. Theoria, LX, 164-167. Thales.

Miscellaneous (1)

• Persson, A. & Persson, J. (2014). Sanningar inom skolan - offentlig föreläsning vid humanist- och teologdagarna 2014. Sveriges utbildningsradio: UR Samtiden - Humanist- och teologdagarna 2014.

Supervision at Lund University (3)

• Stenwall, R. (2015). Truth, Grounding & Dependence. Lund University. Dissertation.
• Thorén, H. (2015). The Hammer and the Nail : Interdisciplinarity and Problem Solving in Sustainability Science. Dissertation.
• Wahlberg, L. (2010). Legal Questions and Scientific Answers : Ontological Differences and Epistemic Gaps in the Assessment of Causal Relations. Lund University. Dissertation.

• Dean at Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology
• Chairperson, Academic Appointments Board, Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology
• Chairperson, Faculty Board, Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology
• Chairperson, Fakultetsstyrelsens arbetsutskott, Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology